Nurse robot to make the rounds in hosps

TNN | Apr 26, 2020, 04:01 IST

Coimbatore: Dotworld Technologies, a city-based start-up, has developed a robot nurse to supply food and medicines to Covid-19 patients in isolation wards.
Dokat Aura will help reduce human interaction, which in turn is expected to control spread of the virus while ensuring the patients get their requirements met in a timely manner.
Government hospitals including the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital were introduced to the robot nurse as an experiment. “The main challenge for our people is to learn how to give the robot commands, monitor it and for patients to get comfortable with being served by it,” said a Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital official.
The firm has also developed a robot that will aid in sanitizing public places by navigating nooks and corners automatically, thus improving efficiency of sanitation and reducing cost and risk of manual labour involved in the practice.